Bournemouth Airport Reviews

Love flying from Bournemouth as we only live 20 minutes drive away, so very convenient. Car parking good and not too expensive. Usually no long queues and through check in and security very quickly. Toilets clean. Restaurant and surrounding areas clean.The only problem we find is the food in the restaurant. Not much choice and overpriced. You can't get all day breakfasts, they finish somewhere around 11 am. Being the only restaurant there you can't choose to go somewhere else. Another eatery would be good. Another shop would also help with less expensive snacks and drinks, magazines etc. Also don't like the ordering app! Otherwise always happy to be there going on holiday!

You have to enter a paid car park to either drop off or pick up passengers. At the car park exit is a very high, speed ramp that is so high your car will ground even if empty, but after collecting 3 adults and their luggage my car grounded so badly that it damaged the exhaust.

Small is sometimes good. When we arrived the cafe just inside was closed. Smiths was open along with the cafe/bar once you get through passport control. Seating can be limited if more than one aircraft departing around same time. We had assistance and for anyone who does need this let me assure you that this airport has one of the best teams we have encountered both here and abroad. Friendly and funny they give you a laugh to the start of your holiday. Please note Christina and Damon are a hoot and do ask Damon to dance for you, this is payback for him finding an excuse not to dance for us lol.

Good airport, however very busy! No seats so we along with 20 others sat in the disabled section and we’re asked to leave! Disabled people were sitting in the normal area so we had to sit on the floor?!?! Do Bournemouth Airport really get 30 disabled and don’t they have wheelchairs? If a disabled person should have appeared, I would have given up my seat in an instant. We may not be disabled but my wife had an injured lag and had to sit down, strange.

Essentially no facilities for walking into this airport unless one walks in the road to add to the frustration.
Car parking for a fortnight was quoted as £97 in distant park, £125 in the nearest, we avoided that. A son delivered and collected us, £3 for drop off each way. With the people for only one flight at a time the multitude of staff seemed still to be unable to cope. The ramp to the plane was an improvment. Getting out of the carpark was a slow frustrating experience. Drivers ahead to us were waving sheets of paper and apparently talking to somebody on the intercom and taking for ever each time. How would they cope if they had two planes landing close together?

Good local airport normally. Today, duty free closed, cafe closed, bar closed. WH Smith the only thing open.
COVID is a convenient excuse but this simply isn’t good enough. My son travelled 1st week of March and found exactly the same - no opportunity to find some bar and cafe staff in the last 3 or 4 weeks?
International airport? I think not!

Travelled from a lot of different airports in the UK and Bournemouth is best by far. Fifteen minutes from home, get a drink and sit and have a cigarrete before departure, great Ryanair Flight , love it and I use it at least six times a year.

For a small airport, it has all the facilities that you need and extremely easy to navigate. I was a bit nervous travelling on my own, however every member of staff that I came across were so cheery and helpful, they made me feel at ease.

Returning from Dublin in the wind and rain to find not one taxi available - rubbish!

No water available airside here, unless you pay and it costs £1.50 for just a little bottle. Surely this is illegal. If not it's still exploitative of customers. Every pub in the UK is required by law to give people water free on request. Most airports have water fountains for travellers but not Bournemouth. Be warned, hydrate before you travel or be prepared to pay through the nose.

Back from Tenerife, on time to Bournemouth. Passport control very quick. Then the reclaim of baggage, which was where the fun began. 30 minutes or more of waiting, then carnage due to broken baggage carousels. So luggage handed through a door with people old and young trying to retrieve their bags. Not a great way to run an airport. Oh and suddenly the carousel burst into life after all the bags were offloaded, collected and most people had gone.

We arrived ar 1715hrs on a Saturday eve to check in for a 2010 flight. The plan being to go through security and eat a meal before our flight and car journey the other side. To our surprise and frankly disgust EVERYTHING at the airport was shut. No coffee etc available land side and everything air side was shut. Leaving us to cater for our 3 year old qith vending machine crisps and water.

Really disappointed with BIA service provision for passengers. The website says the restaurant is working reduced ours but not the shops...duty free or cafes?

The rest of the process...check in and security matched any other airport.

If no stars were available this would be appropriate. This airport is beyond a comedy sketch, from oversized baggage, to security personal, to the Wi-Fi to the joke of the restaurant. This airport needs to close.

This must be a contender for the prize of the country's worst airport. No where to eat air side. The cafe landside had 3 toasties available. This place is dire. Wish I could give it zero stars.

Staff nice and friendly. Toilets need a clean . Drop off charges apply. No cash accepted in world duty free.